From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
Subject: Re: master daea9b3 1/2: Read mailcaps again only when necessary
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2021 14:06:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvcznjsqer.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tugvrerf.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 01 Nov 2021 18:01:56 +0100")
Lars Ingebrigtsen [2021-11-01 18:01:56] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> If two packages read&parse the same file and both rely on this function
>> to decide when to reparse, the second package can get a nil value
>> (because the first has caused the mtime to be reset in the hash table)
>> even though the file has changed since it last parsed it.
> I think that's up to the higher level to decide whether it's a problem
> or not, like with other memoizing functions.
What higher level? I'm talking about two separate packages that don't
know each other, so there's no higher level magic that will save us.
Stefan
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[not found] ` <20211101135346.2EBEB20B72@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2021-11-01 16:56 ` master daea9b3 1/2: Read mailcaps again only when necessary Stefan Monnier
2021-11-01 17:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-01 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-01 17:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-01 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-01 17:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-01 18:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-01 18:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-01 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-01 21:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-02 12:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-02 13:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-01 18:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-01 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-01 18:06 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-11-01 18:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-01 18:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-01 19:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-01 21:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-02 14:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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